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Visiting a New Zealand factory, 1949

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Visiting a New Zealand factory, 1949

After the Second World War there was a continuing recruitment of migrants from northern England to draw on industrial experience which could be used in New Zealand’s expanding factories. Here, Mary Bowie (left) and Hilda Fisk (centre) are shown around the factory where they will work, by its managing director, B. Levy (right).

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Terry Hearn, English – Northern England; the Channel Islands, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/1925/visiting-a-new-zealand-factory-1949 (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Terry Hearn, published 4 March 2009, updated 1 August 2024.